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Mindfulness Meditation

Are you feeling stressed or in need of decompression? Join us in the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) for a 60-minute mindfulness and meditation session led by Dr. Anna Looney. This session will take place in the JSMA with participants sitting in a quiet gallery surrounded by an installation work, Cape Hope (S. Africa), created by the artist James Turrell.

Artist Talk: Sandra C. Fernández

Ecuadorian American artist Sandra C. Fernández (b.1964, New York), Director of the Consejo Gráfico Nacional, photographer, printmaker, and sculptor, will discuss her interdisciplinary approach to art making as well as her academic and artistic interest in memory, immigration, and feminism. Her work is featured in the exhibition An Unfinished Journey: Embodying the Feminist City curated by Dr. Adriana Miramontes Olivas. https://jsma.uoregon.edu/AnUnfinishedJourney

Weaving Sovereignty: The Art of Ceremony in Indigenous Oregon

Rebecca Dobkins, PhD, Professor of Anthropology and Curator of Native American Art, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University

 

This talk draws upon Dr. Rebecca Dobkins’s recently published book The Art of Ceremony: Voices of Renewal from Indigenous Oregon (University of Washington Press) to explore how Indigenous customary practices of plant tending, harvesting, and weaving can contribute to broader conversations about art-making and tribal sovereignty in the Northwest. 

Artist Talk: Tania Candiani

Adopting sound, video, painting, sculpture, performance, textiles, and installation art, interdisciplinary artist Tania Candiani (b. 1974, Mexico City) investigates the complex interrelationships between humans and the more-than-human. With a career spanning the early 2000s through today, Candiani’s work comments on environmental concerns, indigenous rights, and feminism. Join the artist and Dr.

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Lilliam Nieves
Beauty Queen IV, 2019
Red oak panel, surface inked with black ink, 96 x 48 x 3/4
Museum purchase with funds from the Ballinger Endowment Fund

An Unfinished Journey: Embodying the Feminist City

April 22, 2023 to August 27, 2023

An Unfinished Journey: Embodying the Feminist City speaks of an enduring endeavor to attain and maintain women’s rights. Through mixed media artworks by Sandra C. Fernández (b. 1964 New York), Tania Candiani (b. 1974 Mexico City), and Lilliam Nieves (b. 1975 Puerto Rico) the exhibition asks how bodies can claim a sense of belonging and agency, how they can act against systems of oppression that devalue humans and different forms of seeing and being in our communities. How does urban design—architecture, zoning laws, and infrastructure—sustain or dismantle hegemonic power structures? And how can the city, as a space of relationality, and its inhabitants, exhort and advance social justice, as individuals continue to strive for their rights?

The “feminist city” imagines sites where bodies are respected and freed from violence. It recognizes that cities and bodies, much like the category of women and feminism, are contested terms and loci that continue to be redefined and reconceptualized. As feminist geographer Leslie Kern mentions, the feminist city is “an ongoing experiment in living differently, living better, and living more justly.” The feminist city adopts an intersectional approach to acknowledge and addresses both private and public acts of violence against the body. The feminist city brings awareness of different forms of exclusion, devaluation, and misogyny. It also invites us to demand women’s rights and to seek the empowerment of the individual and collective female body. The artists in this exhibition adopt video, painting, sewing, and printing techniques, to reclaim space, their bodies, and their rights in an unfinished journey to embody the feminist city. An Unfinished Journey is curated by Adriana Miramontes Olivas, PhD.

 

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